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The Horace Silver Quintet: Horace-Scope
by Samuel Chell
It's highly doubtful there's been a more instantaneously infectious recent release than this new Rudy Van Gelder edition of a 1960 Horace Silver master session. Without as much as a pickup note, the opening measure places the listener in stride with as irresistible a tune as Silver ever composed: “Strollin.'" The remaining pieces are no less ...
Horace Silver: Silver's Blue
by Samuel Chell
Horace Silver has always been an effective, if limited, catch-phrase soloist, an exemplary hard bop accompanist, and a brilliant miniaturist as a composer, contributing pieces that continue to surface and surprise with their inventive, irresistible melodies and inviting harmonic progressions. Unfortunately, the popular and critical success Silver realized with 1964's Song for My Father led to ...
Let's Get to the Nitty Gritty: The Autobiography of Horace Silver
by Ken Dryden
Let's Get to the Nitty Gritty: The Autobiography of Horace Silver Horace Silver Hardcover; 282 pages ISBN: 0520243749 University of California Press 2006 Horace Silver's life story is very entertaining. The pianist and composer, who has pretty much retired from performing due to back problems, pulls ...
Silver's Blue
Label: Epic Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Silver's Blue; To Beat or Not to Beat; How Long Has This Been Going On?; I'll Know; Shoutin' Out; Hank's Tune; The Night Has a Thousand Eyes.
Horace Silver: Silver's Blue
by Jim Santella
Recorded in July of 1956, Silver's Blue expresses the true meaning of the blues. Hank Mobley, Donald Byrd, and Joe Gordon “sing out" with a spirit true to the form as pianist Horace Silver sculpts Jazz Messenger empathy from his quintets. Half of the session comes from the leader's composing pen, “Hank's Tune" comes ...
Blue Note Connoisseur: Andrew Hill, Larry Young, Horace Silver and more
by C. Andrew Hovan
When the first batch of Blue Note titles released under the new “Connoisseur" umbrella hit the stores in 1994, collectors were astounded by the news that the label would be undergoing a reissue campaign that would focus on the under appreciated gems that they had been looking to acquire for so long. In fact, this reviewer ...
Horace Silver: Re-Entry
Label: 32 Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: 1. Song For My Father (10:32) 2. The African Queen (8:59) 3. The Natives Are Restless Tonight (11:28) 4. Que Pasa (14:54) 5. The African Queen (10:20)
Horace Silver: Rockin
by David Adler
Inspired by a dream and conceived as a stage musical that ran for three nights in Hollywood in 1991, the jazz suite Rockin’ with Rachmaninoff has finally reached listeners in CD form. For various reasons, piano great Horace Silver kept these twelve tracks on the shelf for over a decade. They find “the hard bop grandpop” ...
Blue Mitchell
by Robert Spencer
All About Jazz contributing writer C. Andrew Hovan said it best: “Those of you that are longtime jazz fans, take a few minutes and see how many jazz trumpeters you can name in the next minute. All done? I'm sure many of you remember Miles Davis, Lee Morgan, Louis Armstrong, and Buck Clayton, just to name ...
